A distraught woman running through a clearing in the woods, monsters creeping through the darkness, maddened eyes screaming out at you—all tropes of the horror movie and all included in the audiovisual journey that is It's in the Trees!
After Dashiell's death, Coley was distraught, and searched through the records of New York Hospital for similar cases.
Some were too scared to show up at so public a place, others were too distraught to go through the motions on a Thursday evening.
In ominous tones, and following the cliches of Victorian melodrama, the host in this episode, Joey Greco, walked a distraught young woman through a well-established format.
The defense says that security videos showing Mr. Monserrate pulling a distraught Ms. Giraldo through his building reflected his rush to get her to a hospital.
The former prime minister was rushed to a nearby hospital where distraught supporters burst through doors, smashed windows and tried to storm into the operating theatre where surgeons struggled to save her life.
Yesterday, prosecutors played a videotape of State Senator Hiram Monserrate dragging Karla Giraldo, his distraught, bleeding girlfriend, "through the lobby of their Queens building so violently," as the Times put it, "that she dropped a towel she had pressed to her sliced face".
Distraught, Davies raged through Bear House, later writing: "I broke everything I could lay my hands on".
I imagine Yosef, a distraught husband, moving through a range of emotional states, including quiet acceptance, anger and grief.
